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Historic Denver Walking Tours JOE Sokolowski 1/2019

This is a picture of the boundaries of St. Charles.

Map from Historic Tours, Denver Part 1, David Eitemiller, map by Francis Pierson

DENVER: September 24, 1858 Charles Nichols laid claims to St. Charles town, named after himself. October 30, 1858 A meeting of settlers gather to establish a town to be called Auraria. November 1, 1858 Constitution of Auraria Town Company was adopted. November 6, 1858 Organization of Auraria Town Company. November 17, 1858 Larimer claims the land for Denver City. In effect jumping Nichol’s claim. November 22, 1858 Denver City adopts a Constitution. Denver City established. December 14, 1858 Highlands was plotted by General Larimer.

General Larimer’s Denver claim included more than half of the St. Charles Claim. Charles Nichols had a valid claim in writing from the Kansas Territorial Governor who was promised land for his son in the deal. General Larimer had William McGaa swear the land was abandoned, avoiding a serious accusation of claim jumping. One of Larimer’s men followed Nichols home and threatened him with a rope. He compromised a merger with Larimer. Each St. Charles town member was given $250.00 and shares in the Denver Town Company.

Fortune hunters 100,000-150,000 Go-backers 35,000-50,000

William Byers publishes the first issue of the Rocky Mountain News April 23, 1859

On May 7th, 1859 two coaches from the Leavenworth and Pikes Peak Express Company arrived after 119 days and 687 miles from Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.

Auraria and Denver City merge into Denver in response to Golden’s growth. April 5, 1860

Colorado Territory is established November 7, 1861

Denver City catches fire, 4-19-1863 70 buildings burn, mostly

• n Blake and Market

Streets

Locust Plague June 1, 1863

Cherry Creek Flood May 19, 1864

Photo: George Wakely

Sand Creek Massacre November 29, 1864

Smith’s Ditch begins to flow, 1867

Railroads: First attempts to finance, 1867: Denver Pacific Railway & Telegraph Company Ground broken 5/18/1868 First rail connections: from Cheyenne 6/24/1870 from Kansas- 8/1870

City Hall 1874 Tabor Block 1880 First House on Capitol Hill 1881 Tabor Opera House, Denver 1881 Union Station 1882 Molly Brown House 1889 Oxford Hotel 1891 Brown Palace Hotel 1892 Colorado Capitol Opened 1894 Boettcher House 1908 Daniels & Fisher Tower 1911 Pioneer Fountain 1912 Stapleton Field 1929 City and County Building 1932

Coinage Act 1873 Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890, purchased 4.5 million

• unces of silver a month

Sherman Act repealed 1893

Consumption increases immigration to Colorado Famous Tuberculous Patients: Robert Speer Golda Meir Robert Frost Doc Holladay Baron von Richtofen Edwin “Big Ed” Johnson Temple Hayne Buell Helen Hunt Jackson Cure found in the 1940’s, a combination of two drugs

Sugar Beet Industry

Denver’s Automobile Companies: Fritchle Electric Car Colburn Roadster Gates Rubber Ford Assembly Plant

Colorado was dry four years before the nation. Colorado Prohibition: January 1, 1916 to September 12,1933 National Prohibition Starts: January 17, 1920

World Wide Flu Epidemic, 1918 Denver’s most well known victim, Mayor Robert Speer

Denver’s Boom and Bust Cycles: Great Depression of 1929 Phipps Mansion City and County Building Panning for gold in Cherry Creek

World War II Remington Arms Plant Federal Government looks West.

Denver Federal Center

Denver Urban Renewal Authority: The Future Mis-Judged

1882 Millionaires Row starts to move to Capitol Hill 1893 Silver Crash, Housing sizes decreases 1910’s Changes in Domestic Help: war, factories, immigration 1920’s The rise of apartment buildings 1929 Economic Depression 1930’s Mansions are subdivided and rented out 1940’s-1950’s Need for post war housing 1950’-1960’s Urban Renewal, buildings rebuilt taller 1967 Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission 1970 Historic Denver 1970’s Halfway Houses established 1996 Pennsylvania Street Historic District 2000’s Gentrification of Capitol Hill

Sources

DenverHistory.Blog